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Retired judge M.S. Janarathanan
June 9 , 2025
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- The Retired Madras High Court judge and former chairman of the State Backward Classes Commission, Justice M.S. Janarathanan, passed away.
- He served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 1988 to 1998.
- He also served as the chairman of the State Backward Classes Commission from 2006 to 2015.
- It was on the basis of his recommendations that reservations were implemented for Muslims, Christians, and Arunthathiyars in Tamil Nadu.
- In July 2010, the Supreme Court, provided one year to Tamil Nadu to come out with justification along with quantifiable data for the continuance of the 69% reservation for BC, MBC and SCs/STs.
- Justice Janarathanan, as the head of the State BC Commission, had authored a report in support of the quota scheme, as provided in the Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994.
- In November 2008, as the head of a committee, he submitted a report to the then DMK government that the representation of the Arunthathiyars in Groups A, B and C services under the State “has been found grotesquely inadequate.”
- Consequently, a three percent quota came into force.
- In 2012 he also gave an opinion to the government for providing a 10.5% quota to Vanniyars within the 20%.
- Though this was acted upon by the previous AIADMK regime nine years later, the Supreme Court, in April 2022, quashed the move.
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